Root Causes & Stressors Immune Dysregulation

Immune Dysregulation

Immune dysregulation happens when a body is exposed to harmful environmental influences and unleashes a cascade of harmful effects, often resulting in inflammatory or gastrointestinal symptoms.

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What Is Immune Dysregulation? The immune system is how the body defends itself from harmful substances in the environment. Although there are many environmental factors that contribute to chronic illness in children, one of the most important outcomes of all ... Read More

The Mind-Body-Spirit Principle and Energy Medicine

A Helpful Lens for Health and Wellness In energy medicine, the mind-body-spirit framework is often used to describe the different dimensions through which energy is expressed, exchanged, and experienced. While conventional medicine primarily focuses on measurable physical processes, energy medicine ... Read More

Why Case Reports Matter

Safety and Efficacy of Medical Interventions When it comes to adopting new clinical treatment strategies or therapies in modern medicine, we tend to think that any new therapy or approach to healing comes through a tidy, peer-reviewed, and rigorous scientific ... Read More

Diagnosis Is Not Always Destiny

What’s in a Diagnosis (Mindset)? A diagnosis can be helpful, but it often arrives wrapped in cultural or medical expectations that may unintentionally narrow how we approach a child’s future. Labels tend to focus on what is “wrong,” rather than ... Read More

ABA, Behavior and Biology: A New Vision for Autism Treatment

We are trained to think that autism is a permanent condition where our only options are to improve function through repetitive behavioral management therapies and pharmaceutical symptom suppression. Is this the best we can do for our children? I have ... Read More

If Autism Is Medical and Can Be Reversed, Don’t We Have a Moral Obligation to Try?

This article can also be found on Dr. Gator's Substack here. Documenting Hope has just published another peer-reviewed case report in the medical literature showing full reversal of autism in a child. The real question is no longer whether this ... Read More

The Relationship Between Autism and the Cell Danger Response

For decades, autism has been framed through a variety of lenses including genetics, behavioral, neurological, microbiome, metabolic, and more. But what if these perspectives are all describing different pieces of a deeper, unifying biological process? Dr. Robert Naviaux, a physician-scientist ... Read More

The MTHFR Gene Mutation and Methylation

What Is MTHFR? MTHFR is a common genetic “mutation” with two primary variants: C677T and A1298C. If you get two copies of one variant, you are called homozygous; just one copy makes you heterozygous. People with a mutation have at ... Read More